Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Foreign policy favorite explains why he agreed to join Rudy Giuliani's Foreign Policy team as senior Middle East advisor: I join Team Rudy:
Also, Giuliani has written a piece today for PJM: Better Judges, Better Courts, which also sounds the right notes:
...To reduce the impact of the Trial Lawyer Tax, we should reform the system by adopting rules that discourage frivolous lawsuits, such as “loser pays.†The ideal would be the English Rule, in which the losing party pays the winning side’s legal fees. This may prove to be too much of a change for our society, but we should at least shift the burden of proof to the losing party to show good-faith basis for their lawsuit. And Judges should also be able to quickly dismiss frivolous lawsuits...
Sounds good to me, too. No Solomonia endorsement yet -- it's way too early, and there are other good candidates -- but we're looking good so far.
I'm endorsing Senator Clinton.
Call the AP. This is huge.
Take a look at Mitt Romney. I think you will be impressed.
He's one of the reasons I'm holding off.
"To reduce the impact of the Trial Lawyer Tax" - there is no such thing. It's always the lawyers fault until you need one. Frivolous law suits are thrown out of court and attorney's that bring them can be and are sanctioned. This one needs to be let go already
In theory. In practice, the threshold for getting a case thrown out is very high. If there's any possibility of merit at all it goes forward. And having been the victim of a scumbag lawyer who was willing to play the civil system to his benefit, I can tell you it happens.